Real-world use cases

Real-world use cases

What real organisations are doing with artificial intelligence, industry by industry. Every case cites its source; the read on why it matters is my own.

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Banking and finance
Banking and finance
Agents 20 OCT 2026

LHV Bank uses AI agents for customer email support

LHV Bank has gone live with agentic AI for customer email support in the UK, powered by Gradient Labs. The launch follows a proof of concept announce…

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Banking and finance
Banking and finance
Agents 20 OCT 2026

Visa pilots AI agent payments between buyer and supplier platforms

Visa has joined forces with Bill and Billtrust to launch the first live pilot to enable trusted AI agents to initiate and complete approved buyer inv…

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Banking and finance
Banking and finance
Agents 20 OCT 2026

Northteq launches AI agents for equipment finance

Today, Northteq is introducing aurora Agent Suite, an all-new set of AI agents built directly into aurora, its Salesforce-native loan origination sys…

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Manufacturing
Artificial intelligence 20 OCT 2026

Spain-Based Startups Advance Regional Innovation With Barcelona Supercomputing Center

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)’s AI Factory Accelerator Programme, now in full operation following a pilot initiative, gives startups acce…

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Logistics and supply chain
Agents 19 OCT 2026

The AI forwarder of the future

Agentic process execution could change the P&L far beyond productivity, and the real gains for forwarders sit in execution quality, margin capture an…

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Government and public sector
Government and public sector
Artificial intelligence 19 OCT 2026

NYC transit agencies test AI tools to modernize infrastructure, data workflows

A new report shows how 17 companies tested tools for infrastructure inspections, maintenance planning and data management with transit agencies in th…

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Government and public sector
Artificial intelligence 19 OCT 2026

Illinois rehires former chief data officer to serve as chief AI officer

Tammy Roust rejoins the state after Kader Sakkaria quietly departed the CAIO role after just a month on the job.

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Manufacturing
Artificial intelligence 19 OCT 2026

Germany Wants to Lead the World in Industrial AI: How NVIDIA Will Help

In the cavernous hall of Kraftwerk, a former power station in Berlin, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang sat do…

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Logistics and supply chain
Agents 19 OCT 2026

Understand the agentic supply chain: 5 things CIOs must know

Software supply chain risk used to have a fairly contained definition: open-source packages, build pipelines, and the occasional compromised maintain…

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Agriculture and food
Artificial intelligence 19 OCT 2026

Kodama nets $7m to scale physical AI for ‘intelligent forestry’

Forestry contractors face growing demand for timber, forest management, and wildfire-resilience but struggle to find and retain reliable operators. T…

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Banking and finance
Banking and finance
Artificial intelligence 19 OCT 2026

Huntington Bank partners Google Cloud for AI-powered small business operating system

The Huntington National Bank has unveiled an AI-powered operating system built with Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise platform.

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Education
Agents 19 OCT 2026

The Download: preserving the Arctic permafrost, and playful AI agents

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside the …

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Banking and finance
Banking and finance
Agents 19 OCT 2026

FCA calls for disclaimers on AI financial advice

The UK's financial services watchdog is calling on AI providers to issue disclaimers for services that provide financial advice to consumers via agen…

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Energy and utilities
Artificial intelligence 19 OCT 2026

AI in nuclear operations: The shift from adoption to operating value

Nuclear utility AI results have been mixed across the industry, but there are clear trends among those finding value.

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Logistics and supply chain
Agents 19 OCT 2026

The biggest risk in agentic commerce isn’t easy to see. It’s invisibility.

As AI agents shortlist products for shoppers, incomplete data can mean lost sales.

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Manufacturing
Artificial intelligence 19 OCT 2026

How AI, digital twins and real-time simulation are accelerating manufacturing innovation

See how AI, digital twins and real-time simulation are transforming manufacturing.

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Retail and consumer
Artificial intelligence 19 OCT 2026

Your retail network isn’t ready for AI. Here’s why.

Here's a practical list of network and IT challenges retailers need to overcome to support AI at scale.

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Banking and finance
Banking and finance
Artificial intelligence 18 OCT 2026

World takes on AI-driven impersonations with new suite for banking and finance

World, the digital identity project co-founded by OpenAI boss Sam Altman has unveiled suite of tools designed to help banks prevent deepfake fraud an…

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Education
Generative AI 16 OCT 2026

Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses

Listen to the session or watch below Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary an…

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Banking and finance
Banking and finance
Artificial intelligence 16 OCT 2026

Indicium AI’s Applied AI Symposium: Five lessons for turning AI ambition into business impact

Author: A finextra community member

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Government and public sector
Artificial intelligence 16 OCT 2026

State, local website improvements crucial as more residents use AI assistants to get important info, report says

Residents are relying more on AI-powered summaries for information. Governments can do more to make sure they’re accurate, the report says.

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Banking and finance
Banking and finance
Agents 16 OCT 2026

Can Agentic AI Transform Corporate Banking Self-Service Experiences?

At Sibos 2026, Pega’s Steve Morgan talks about banks can leveraging agentic AI to deliver seamless corporate self-service experiences.

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Telecommunications
Artificial intelligence 16 OCT 2026

Eurobites: Europe must not stand on sidelines of connectivity space race, says EU's López

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Connexin secures smart meter financing; Ericsson logs on to Sferical AI; Bouygues wins Wi-Fi gong.

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Logistics and supply chain
Artificial intelligence 16 OCT 2026

AI won’t plug forwarder margin leaks without better data and processes

Freight forwarders must tackle unbilled charges, manual rework, and unreliable data before expecting AI to protect their margins, according to Metro …

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Banking and finance
Banking and finance
Artificial intelligence 16 OCT 2026

Deutsche Bank rolls out on-premise AI system

Germany's Deutsche Bank has implemented an AI platform across its capital markets and investment banking teams in Europe and North America.

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Banking and finance
Banking and finance
Artificial intelligence 16 OCT 2026

Farsight and Ornn partner for AI-powered banking

Farsight, the platform helping global financial services firms become AI-native, today announced a partnership with Ornn, which builds financial mark…

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Logistics and supply chain
Logistics and supply chain
Artificial intelligence 16 OCT 2026

CoreWeave CDS distress – ‘investors sour on AI debt’

CNBC reports: CoreWeave’s credit stress continued to spiral on Thursday amid a broader sell-off in AI-related names. CoreWeave — a so-called neocloud…

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Telecommunications
Telecommunications
Artificial intelligence 16 OCT 2026

Ericsson sees further growth in India's 5G market as AI drives network demand

Ericsson's Nitin Bansal says rising data consumption, AI applications and wider 5G adoption will create new opportunities for the company in India

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Banking and finance
Banking and finance
Artificial intelligence 15 OCT 2026

AI-native payments platform Movere launches

A collection of banking and fintech veterans has unveiled Movere, an AI-native payments platform for businesses.

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Banking and finance
Banking and finance
Artificial intelligence 15 OCT 2026

AI-native personal finance platform Matters emerges from stealth with $5m pre-seed

Matters, a Swedish AI-native personal finance platform, has emerged from stealth with a $5 million pre-seed funding round.

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